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Adam Osborne was born on march 6 1939, in Bangkok Thailand. Adam was in the computer engineering field. He invented the portable computer, called Osborne 1, released in April 3 1981. It weight 24.5 pounds, costing us $1795.

after Osborne computers collapse, Adam Osborne wrote the best selling memoir book of his experience Hypergrowth: the rise and fall of the Osborne computer corporation.